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UTILITY WEEK | 14TH - 20TH OCTOBER 2016 | 21 Operations & Assets Source: Capita Source: DCC THE BIG NUMBERS: SMART METER COSTS DCC cost £2.47bn Total rollout cost £10.9bn Total forecast benefits £17bn Net Benefits £6.2bn Source: Government/Decc 2014 WHO IS THE DCC? THE DCC IN FIGURES KEY RISKS/ ISSUES OF SMART METER ROLLOUT 1. There is a risk of long-cycle defects or Commercial Product Assurance (CPA) impacting defects arising 2. Self-Service Interface (SSI) – defect preventing testing in User Entry Process Testing 3. Testing of North Region service management is running late – but within release timescales 4. Integrated Business Acceptance Testing (BAT) will start late but is within release timescales 5. Remediation of issues found in security testing the production platform in DSP and in CSPN is continuing but is forecast to be within release timescales Source: Capita 70m messages per day by 2020 across the DCC network 140 services provided by DCC 32m Communications hubs installed by 2020 300m install certificates 250,000 meter installations by energy suppliers per week at peak At least 99.25% coverage by 2020 Supporting up to 53m smart meters installed 30m premises by 2020 200 DCC users including energy suppliers, network operators and other authorised organisations at peak PROJECTIONS FOR THE SMART METER ROLLOUT FROM 2012-2015 2012 Source: Decc 2013 Source: Decc 2014 Source: Decc 2015 source: Decc 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Projected number of smart and advanced meters (millions) Projected number of smart and advanced meters (millions) Projected number of smart and advanced meters (millions) Projected number of smart and advanced meters (millions) 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Remainder 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 of 2015